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Photos: Harry Morgan | 1915-2011

File PhotoEmmy-winning character actor Harry Morgan — whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television’s M*A*S*H highlighted a show-business career that included nine other TV series, 50 films and the Broadway stage — died on Dec. 7, 2011 at the age of 96.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoHarry Morgan, right, first gained attention in Hollywood for his role as a sidekick to Henry Fonda in the acclaimed 1943 Western The Ox-Bow Incident.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoFrom 1967 to 1970, Harry Morgan starred as Sgt. Bill Gannon, the partner of Jack Webb’s Sgt. Joe Friday on the iconic police series Dragnet.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoIn 1971, Harry Morgan played the chief deputy district attorney in the short-lived television series The D.A., which two decades later served as the inspiration for the long-running series Law & Order.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoHarry Morgan gained his greatest fame on M*A*S*H, whose cast he joined during the show’s fourth season in 1975 as commanding officer Col. Sherman T. Potter. He won an Emmy for the role in 1980.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoThe final episode of M*A*S*H in February 1983 was watched by more than 100 million Americans, making it the most watched television program until it was passed by Super Bowl XLIV in 2010. In a scene from the show when members gather to place Cpl. Klinger’s yellow dress into a foot-locker time capsule are, left to right, Loretta Swit, Mike Farrell, Jamie Farr, Harry Morgan, Alan Alda and William Christopher.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoAlthough he was approaching his 70s when M*A*S*H ended, Harry Morgan — shown arriving with his wife Barbara at the People’s Choice Awards in 1988 — continued to find work on television, including the short-lived 1980s series AfterMASH and Blacke’s Magic.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoIn the 1990s, Harry Morgan, right, played Judge Stoddard Bell in a series of made-for-television movies starring Walter Matthau (as attorney Harmon J. Cobb, left). Stephanie Zimbalist, center, also starred in the 1994 movie The Family Secret: Incident in a Small Town.Request to buy this photo